Happy Pi Day!

[ironyak]

Hope everyone had an awesome and enlightening ultimate Pi Day (of this century)!
3-14-15 9:26:53

[shave_ice]

I celebrated by making a jaboticaba pie. [] Best ever crop from my tree.

[TomK]

Shave_ice - you weren't by any chance renting a place to an astronomer from Arizona last week? He kept bringing in jaboticaba fruit and I'm now utterly addicted!

[shave_ice]

Nope, wasn't me Tom, but I think this must be the season for them and I think the recent drought really helped with this crop. They are really fun to eat aren't they? []

[TomK]

I don't know what it is with them. First one I ate had an unusual taste, I would almost call it an adult taste, but soon after that I couldn't stop. Apparently they're pretty good for you as well, but to be honest I don't care, I need more!

Shame their shelf-life is so short.

[ironyak]

What's nice about the American date format is that we don't have to wait another 16 years for 31-4-1 5:09:26 or worse 1126 years for 3141-5-9, and we get two servings of Pi at 9:26:53 am and pm.

I managed to post the thread at 9:26:51 pm which is pretty good for second desert, but not as good as jaboticaba pie. Awesome idea for local style Pi!

[TomK]

I prefer to follow the British tradition of having two separate days to celebrate the same thing, no matter how illogical it is. The US system just doesn't allow this.

Indeed, March 14th 2015 is official Pi day, but 22/7 (or July 22nd, 7/22 in American speak) is the unofficial Pi day, just like our beloved Queen who has two birthdays and rules over the entire world. And being an astronomer, the approximation of 22/7 sits much more comfortably with me!

Anyone got jaboticaba? I'm suffering withdrawal symptoms.

[Hapunatic]

quote:

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Originally posted by TomK

our beloved Queen who has two birthdays and rules over the entire world.

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Seriously? Rules over the entire world? Well maybe the children of the world.

http://time.com/2974381/england-land-of-...-coverups/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQTBepU7D0U

[Rene Siracusa]

The oldest two-day celebrations are with the Jewish calendar, in which a day runs from sundown to sundown. Of course, in that calendar it's only considered one day.

[rainyjim]

Tom,

one of my neighbors has a ton of Jaboticaba trees, if you want me to pass along his phone number, shoot me an e-mail on the e-mail I used the other day.

Aloha mai kakou